By Aisha Gambo

The Executive Secretary National Board for Technical Education (NBTE),Kaduna, Professor Idris Muhammad Bugaje has urged the federal government to deploy one million army personnel to fight bandits, boko haram and other terrorist group in the country.

The ES made the call while delivering a keynote address at the first annual International science conference held at the Kaduna State University (KASU) on Wednesday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the theme of the conference was "Combating insecurity and economic challenges through sustainable scientific innovation".

According to him, the game of numbers had proved to be successful in many fights in the past,as such could be replicated now by recruiting more security men to fight insurgency in the country.

"We have many youths who are willing and able to serve the country in the military;if government can recruit more security personnel ,it would be a plus to the fight against insecurity.

"When peace is fully restored,half of the million military personnel can continue serving in the military while the remaining can be sent to polytechnics to learn skills that would make them self reliant",he said.

Earlier,the Minister of Communication, Prof. Isah Pantami who was represented by the Director, Nigeria Communication Satellite limited (NIGCOM SAT),Prof. Abdu Bambale, said that technology could be effectively utilised to address insecurity in Nigeria.

He added that The NIGCOM SAT had discovered that the issue of vandalism of rail tracks could be addressed through monitoring using satellite .

He explained that the digital economy created by the ministry had given job opportunities to Nigerian youth adding that universities could proffer scientific solutions to insecurity through research.

Similarly, the Dean, Faculty of Science, Prof. Sadiq Abdu, said one of the ways of fighting insecurity was through poverty alleviation which could be achieved through technical education.

He added that there is need for security agencies to use technology in fighting insecurity.

"We can use technology to trace bandits who kidnap people to the bush such by using bio sensors which can find traces of people from their breathe when the my breathe out carbondioxide.

" There are other technologies that can dictate if they are humans or animal",he said.(NAN)

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Passengers stranded as railway workers commence nationwide strike

Jude Egbas

November 18, 2021 3:22 PM

The workers want improved conditions of service.

Railway workers strike in Lagos (TheCable)

About 11,000 railway workers across the country, under the aegis of the Nigeria Union of Railway Workers (NURW) and the Senior Staff Association (SSA), have commenced a three-day warning strike to protest "poor welfare."

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As a result, railway operations in most rail stations across the country, have been grounded. Passengers have also been left stranded.

"This strike is just to send a warning signal to the right quarters to heed our demands for improved welfare and standard condition of service and may be followed with a protracted strike plan,” the unions announced last week.

At the Ebute Metta train station in Lagos for instance, railway workers took their protest to the Lagos-Ibadan rail tracks, while chanting solidarity songs and wielding placards with the following inscriptions:

“Give us salary regime or we die”, “work for Nigeria railway and die in abject poverty," “good salaries bring better results, bad salaries kill morale."

Rail operations on popular routes like Lagos-Ibadan, Abuja-Kaduna, Kano-Unguru, Aba-Port Harcourt and Warri-Itakpe, have been severely affected by the strike.

Punch reports that Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, held a meeting with the unions in Lagos last Saturday in a bid to avert the strike. The meeting however ended in a deadlock.

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